木材市場新聞

Kadant Nordic AB, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., was awarded the order for an M-clean fabric cleaning system from Hiang Seng Fibre Container Company Ltd. of Bangkok, Thailand. The 14 M-clean fabric cleaning systems are scheduled to be shipped later this year for installation on five board machines at ...

Perlen Papier AG, which constitutes the Paper Division of the CPH Group, is to take over, with effect from 1 January 2018, the contractual agreements with customers and recovered paper suppliers and the remaining paper stocks of Papierfabrik Utzenstorf AG of Canton Bern, Switzerland, which will be c...

UPM's 2Q 2017 sales were Euro 2,464 million, 1% higher than the Euro 2,445 million for 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Comparable EBIT increased by 2% to Euro 270 million, 11% of sales. Comparable EBIT increased mainly due to lower depreciation.2Q operat...

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. reports record sales in 2Q 2017of $1.32 billion, up from $1.11 billion in last year, with earnings up 49% to $146 million. 2Q Adjusted EBITDA was $305 million, compared to $138 million in 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Lumber...

Varaka Kağit Sanayi AŞ, a member of the Albayrak Group, selected PMT for the technological sections of the rebuild of the 7.1 m wide paper machine #2 in Balikesir, Turkey.The machine, that originally was producing newsprint and machine finished coated in Spain, will be converted to produce 1,100 tpd...

Kruger Publication Papers appoints Paul DeRose as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, he will be responsible for direct global sales of Kruger's lines of coated and construction papers, as PaperAge reports.DeRose has more than 35 years of experience in the industry, including 15 years at Kruge...

PMP (Paper Machinery Producer) signed a contract with Australian Paper for delivery of an Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox for their paper machine 2 (M2), located in Morwell, Australia. The project goal is to exchange the existing headbox for a PMP Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox, as the company sa...

Arjowiggins Security has entered into a binding agreement with Oberthur Fiduciaire concerning the sale of its subsidiary, Arjowiggins Security BV, covering the VHP mill in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and the intellectual property rights related to the production of banknote paper, for a gross amount...

U.S. total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 5% in June 2017, compared to June 2016. All four printing-writing grades posted year-over-year shipment declines in June. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels increased 1% from May 2017, as the American Forest & Paper Association rep...

UPM's 2Q 2017 sales were Euro 2,464 million, 1% higher than the Euro 2,445 million for 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Comparable EBIT increased by 2% to Euro 270 million, 11% of sales. Comparable EBIT increased mainly due to lower depreciation.2Q operat...

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. reports record sales in 2Q 2017of $1.32 billion, up from $1.11 billion in last year, with earnings up 49% to $146 million. 2Q Adjusted EBITDA was $305 million, compared to $138 million in 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Lumber...

According to the results of the first months of 2017, SVEZA has become the leading plywood manufacturer amongst the European suppliers of Schmitz Cargobull AG. Schmitz Cargobull AG is the European market leader in the production of semitrailers, trailers and refrigerated vehicles.The history of the ...

Due to fire activity in the Cariboo, Tolko Industries Ltd. will be curtailing its Quest Wood operation in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada, as of Monday, July 24th. The mill employs approximately 200 people and produces 210 million board feet of dimension lumber on an annual basis, as the company s...

Sveaskog’s 2Q 2017 net sales increased by 2% to SEK 1,702 million ($205 million). Total delivery volumes are unchanged compared with the 2Q last year but selling prices increased by an average of 2%. Sales of wood raw material totalled 2.8 million cubic metres, as the company said in the press relea...

Södra's operating profit totalled SEK 464 million ($56 million) for the 2Q 2017. The trend was boosted by favourable demand for Södra’s products, higher prices and internal operational improvements, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network."The overall forest economy rema...

Chinese floor producer Jiangyin Funuo New Decoration Materials Co., Ltd. has entered into a global non-exclusive license agreement with Välinge for the use of the 2G and 5G® locking systems in WPC and LVT/SPC flooring products, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Fun...

PALLMANN® announced that Rayo Wholesale Inc. will distribute Pallmann’s Hardwood Complete range of wood flooring products throughout the greater San Diego, California, market.“We are very excited to have Rayo Wholesale as our newest partner”, said Mark Weglowski, Brand Manager for Pallmann. “Rayo pr...

Kährs Group has signed an agreement to supply wood flooring to the property developer Ikano Bostad, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Under the agreement, Kährs Group will deliver wood flooring to Ikano Bostad’s new construction projects and renovation projects in ...

After the unexpected decline in Japan’s assembled flooring imports recorded in February this year coming after a period of a sustained upward trend, there was a rebound in March and April but May data shows that, once again the trend has reversed. Year-on-year, May 2017 assembled flooring imports we...

In contrast to the volatile wooden door imports, Japan’s imports of wooden windows was flat for the first four months of 2017 rising only in May. Year-on-year, the value of May 2017 wooden window imports fell 13% but month-on-month they rose 21%, as ITTO reported.As was the case with May wooden door...

Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. breaks ground on a 465,000 square foot E-Commerce Fulfillment and Distribution Center. The addition to Ashley’s facility in Pennsylvania will now total to 1.7 million square feet, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The E-Commerce Fu...

Europac Group (Papeles y Cartones de Europa S.A.) has acquired, from Valladolid, the waste management company Transcon Valladolid, S.A. With this acquisition, which amounts to Euro 3.7 million and represents multiple post synergistic gains of 5.3 times EBITDA, the company strengthens its position as...

The European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) has been renamed the European Paper Recycling Council (EPRC). The name change also takes into consideration the use of the term of paper for recycling rather than recovered paper in the updated European Standard List of Grades of Paper and Board for Recycl...

PAPCEL Saint Petersburg signed a new contract with the paper mill ZAO Kartontol to supply equipment and machinery for the stock preparation line (waste paper processing), line output 100 tpd, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The refurbishment includes a complete r...

Universal Forest Products, Inc. reported financial results for the 1Q ended April 1, 2017. 1Q 2017 net sales of $846.1 million represent a 24% increase over net sales of $682.2 million in 1Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The Company’s retail and construct...

Roseburg Forest Products announces that Attorney Stuart Gray will join the company’s executive team as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Aug. 7, 2017. Gray will play a key role as chief legal counsel and senior advisor on company strategies and their implementation, with direct in...

The Homag Group is investing in its Schopfloch site. Investments for the extension of a building to further increase the production area and for new parking spaces will reach around Euro 2.5 million this year. Further investments are due to follow.The ground-breaking ceremony to mark the 1,800 m2 ex...

Walford Timber acquires timber and fencing supplier G & MB Manning Ltd., as TTJ reports. Walford Timber said the acquisition represented a perfect opportunity for both companies as Manning’s owner and managing director Christine Dennis was wishing to retire and Walford had wanted to expand into ...

Roseburg Forest Products announces that Attorney Stuart Gray will join the company’s executive team as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Aug. 7, 2017. Gray will play a key role as chief legal counsel and senior advisor on company strategies and their implementation, with direct in...

Canadian imports of tropical sawnwood were worth $2.18 million in May, up 12% from April. Year-to-date imports increased 5% from May 2016, as ITTO reported.The import growth was almost entirely in sapelli sawnwood. While US imports of sapelli were down, Canadian sapelli imports more than doubled fro...

Sveaskog’s 2Q 2017 net sales increased by 2% to SEK 1,702 million ($205 million). Total delivery volumes are unchanged compared with the 2Q last year but selling prices increased by an average of 2%. Sales of wood raw material totalled 2.8 million cubic metres, as the company said in the press relea...

After over 40 years in the industry, Keith Laugen, Vice President of Cedar Creek’s North Central Region, has announced his retirement.Keith was President, CEO, and a Founder of Lake States Lumber which became part of Cedar Creek last year through acquisition.Cedar Creek announced that Steve Lindauer...

Moelven improved its 1Q 2017 operating profit by NOK 71 million ($8.2 million), compared to the same period last year. The year's 1Q was the best since 2008, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.1Q 2017 operating profit increased to NOK 101 million ($11.6 million), co...

Honkarakenne Oyj’s Annual General Meeting elected Timo Kohtamäki, Arimo Ristola, Anita Saarelainen and Kyösti Saarimäki as members of the Board.The Board of Directors convened for its constituent meeting and appointed Arimo Ristola as Chairman of the Board. At the same board meeting Board of Directo...

The Molpus Woodlands Group announced today, on behalf of a client, an offering for sale approximately 45,850 acres located in four states: approximately 15,300 acres in North Carolina, 4,850 acres in Georgia, 12,300 acres in Alabama, and 13,400 acres in Mississippi. This investment-grade timberland ...

Potlatch Corporation reported net income of $24.3 million, or $0.59 per diluted share, on revenues of $163.2 million for the 2Q ended June 30, 2017.Net loss was $31.3 million, or $0.77 per diluted share, on revenues of $141.5 million in the 2Q 2016. Excluding the after-tax loss of $36.7 million on t...

Coillte, Ireland’s largest forestry and land solutions company, announced its annual results for 2016. The company delivered record earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of Euro 98.3 million, up 10% on the previous year.Operating cash flow at Euro 15.2 million was up ...

Resolute Forest Products Inc. appoints Patrice Minguez as president of the company's Tissue Group. This appointment will take effect on August 1, 2017, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Patrice Minguez will serve as a member of Resolute's Executive Team and will ov...

Suzano Papel e Celulose plans to acquire equipment for converting tissue paper, also known as sanitary paper, into finished products, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The mill in Imperatriz, Brazil, will be the first one in the state of Maranhão to manufacture pro...

Cascades Inc. officially inaugurated its new state-of-the-art, 284,000-square-foot tissue converting facility in Scappoose, Oregon, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network. The grand opening of this $64 million facility was celebrated by the Governor of Oregon, Kate Brow...

Less than a year after the installation of an OMET XFlex X4 370, Delta Center typography in Omsk, Russia, decided to buy a second machine, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The new investment is an iFlex 370, the unique flexo press dedicated to label printing and c...

Avery Dennison Corporation appoints Gregory S. Lovins to senior vice president and CFO, effective immediately, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Mr. Lovins, 45, will be responsible for leading financial operations across Avery Dennison, and will also oversee the co...

WS Packaging Group, Inc. announced that Dean Wimer has been named CEO effective July 1, 2017, and current CEO Charlie Eitel will take over as the company's chairman. Wimer has been chief operating officer since July 2016.Prior to joining WS Packaging in 2016, Dean Wimer served as president and chief...

Kadant Nordic AB, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., was awarded the order for an M-clean fabric cleaning system from Hiang Seng Fibre Container Company Ltd. of Bangkok, Thailand. The 14 M-clean fabric cleaning systems are scheduled to be shipped later this year for installation on five board machines at ...

PMP (Paper Machinery Producer) signed a contract with Australian Paper for delivery of an Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox for their paper machine 2 (M2), located in Morwell, Australia. The project goal is to exchange the existing headbox for a PMP Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox, as the company sa...

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) announces that Steve Schubring has joined the organization as the Value Stream Leader of tissue packaging. In this role, he will provide overall leadership for the tissue packaging value stream, focusing on everything from sales support and project management,...

UPM's 2Q 2017 sales were Euro 2,464 million, 1% higher than the Euro 2,445 million for 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Comparable EBIT increased by 2% to Euro 270 million, 11% of sales. Comparable EBIT increased mainly due to lower depreciation.2Q operat...

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. reports record sales in 2Q 2017of $1.32 billion, up from $1.11 billion in last year, with earnings up 49% to $146 million. 2Q Adjusted EBITDA was $305 million, compared to $138 million in 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Lumber...

Sveaskog’s 2Q 2017 net sales increased by 2% to SEK 1,702 million ($205 million). Total delivery volumes are unchanged compared with the 2Q last year but selling prices increased by an average of 2%. Sales of wood raw material totalled 2.8 million cubic metres, as the company said in the press relea...

UPM's 2Q 2017 sales were Euro 2,464 million, 1% higher than the Euro 2,445 million for 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Comparable EBIT increased by 2% to Euro 270 million, 11% of sales. Comparable EBIT increased mainly due to lower depreciation.2Q operat...

On 1 September 2017, Riia Sillave is to hand over her position as the Heinzel Holding GmbH CFO to Barbara Potisk-Eibensteiner, who until now was the CFO of RHI.Ms Sillave has been active in an operative capacity for the Heinzel Group for a total of 13 years. Initially, she served as the CFO of the E...

Fredrik Aldaeus from RISE has been appointed new chairman of Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) Technical Committee for Standardization in Pulp and Paper."I look forward to contribute to standardized testing methods that will facilitate product control and facilitate trade in pulp and paper worldwide...

Ahlstrom-Munksjö will release additional capacity at its Turin plant in Italy to meet the growing demand for engine and industrial filtration media.Fulvio Capussotti, Executive Vice President of Business Area Filtration and Performance, states: “This capacity increase aims at improving our current s...

Resolute Forest Products Inc. appoints Patrice Minguez as president of the company's Tissue Group. This appointment will take effect on August 1, 2017, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Patrice Minguez will serve as a member of Resolute's Executive Team and will ov...

ABB has launched L&W Fiber Online – a reliable, repeatable and cost-effective online system for measuring, monitoring and controlling significant fiber quality variables in paper stock preparation and pulp production.This helps pulp and paper customers to save production costs by optimizing fibe...

In February 2017, Stora Enso announced that it planned to permanently shut down paper machine 8 (PM8) at Kvarnsveden Mill in Sweden due to structural weakening of magazine paper demand in Europe. Co-determination negotiations with employees at the mill are still ongoing, but PM8 was permanently shut...

Kruger Publication Papers appoints Paul DeRose as Vice President of Sales. In his new role, he will be responsible for direct global sales of Kruger's lines of coated and construction papers, as PaperAge reports.DeRose has more than 35 years of experience in the industry, including 15 years at Kruge...

The Austrian paper manufacturer Laakirchen Papier AG announced a price increase by 8% for supercalendered (SC) paper which is valid from 3rd July 2017.“The background of the price increase is higher costs for raw and auxiliary materials,” says Thomas Krawinkler, Head Sales and Marketing of Laakirche...

Solenis LLC closed on its previously announced acquisition of the business and assets of Nopco Colombiana S.A.Headquartered in Medellin, Colombia, Nopco Colombiana is a leading producer and supplier of specialized chemical solutions for water intensive industries, including pulp and paper, oil and g...

GPA announces that John Olson has joined the team as their newest Business Development Manager. In this role, Olson will focus his creativity, experience, and knowledge of the local market on helping GPA’s customers in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota achieve greater profitability.Olson’s backg...

Michelman appoints two new Group Vice Presidents. Ms. Ginger Merritt, Michelman’s China Country Manager, has been tapped as the company’s new Vice President of Coatings, while Ms. Lisa DiGate, Global Director of R&D Systems at Michelman, has been appointed the company’s new Vice President of Pri...

UPM's 2Q 2017 sales were Euro 2,464 million, 1% higher than the Euro 2,445 million for 2Q 2016, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.Comparable EBIT increased by 2% to Euro 270 million, 11% of sales. Comparable EBIT increased mainly due to lower depreciation.2Q operat...

Uniboard Canada Inc., the North American leader in decorative composite wood panels, appointed Monarch Custom Plywood Inc. (“Monarch”) as a full line distributor of its TFL panels in the greater Toronto area.“Uniboard has a growing presence in the Ontario market with its value-added composite panel ...

Norbord Inc. announced that its OSB mill in 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada, resumed production over the weekend after the evacuation order for 100 Mile House and nearby communities was lifted.On July 10th, Norbord reported that its OSB mill in 100 Mile House had temporarily suspended produ...